Tuesday, 23 February 2016

An Interview with Daniel Caspi

Please welcome Miriam Drori to my blog this week. Miriam is interviewing Daniel Caspi, one of her characters, all about love...

MD
Hello Daniel. Perhaps you could start by telling me something about
yourself.

DC
I’m nearly seventeen, so still at school in Jerusalem. I’m studying
science and hoping to go on to study at the Technion in Haifa. I love discovering
things for myself, so I want to become a research scientist. I haven’t decided
which branch of science to concentrate on yet. It’s all fascinating.

MD
What sort of a person are you? How would you describe your character?

DC
Happy, generally. I get on well with people. And I know my mind. I know
where I want to go and I’m determined to make it happen. A go-getter, I guess
you’d say.

MD
What about your love life? How has it been and which way do you want
that to go?

DC
So far, it’s been non-existent. I’ve been out with a couple of girls
from school, but that was nowhere near serious. I guess I plan to meet a girl
someday and settle down with her and raise a family. My parents are happily
married, so I want the same for myself. But I know love is a complicated
business. It’s not something you can prepare for, like a career. It so depends
on the other person.

MD
Do you have any girl in mind?

DC
No. Well…

MD
Yes?

DC
It’s much too early to say. I’ve only just met her. She was at a meal my
parents and I were invited to. I took her for a walk to the new canal by the
zoo. That was all we did, but I felt a something for her that I haven’t felt
with any girl before. A sort of tingly feeling. It was weird. And I felt she
was fighting with herself.

MD
How do you mean?

Jerusalem Park

DC
Sometimes she was really sweet, and then it was like she remembered she
didn’t want to be sweet and she was kind of nasty. But I loved it when she
stopped to take in a tree full of blossom…

MD
Tell me about her.

DC
Her face is… kind of perfect. She has long, straight hair that, like,
flowed over her bare shoulder. I wanted to stroke those shoulders. It was…
enticing. Surprising, too.

MD
Why surprising?

DC
I’d heard about her background. She used to be haredi… you know…
ultra-orthodox. All covered up with black tights and long skirts and sleeves. I
was surprised to see her in a sleeveless top. It had a rather low neckline,
too, and her jeans were really tight.

MD
But she left the haredi lifestyle, you say?

DC
Yeah, but… only recently. I thought she’d take the transition more
gradually. It’s kind of worrying.

MD
Why worrying?

DC
It’s like she’s thrown all her upbringing away in one go… too quickly.
I’m afraid she’ll go too far too fast and go off the rails at some point.

MD
But why do you care? You only met her once.

DC
Good question. I used to laugh when people talked about love at first
sight. My parents said as soon as they met they knew they were right for each
other. I said, “That’s crazy. It doesn’t make any sense. How can you know just
like that?”

MD
And what do you think now?

DC
I think I understand them.

Daniel
Caspi will appear in the sequel to Neither Here Nor There, a romance
with a difference by Miriam Drori.

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